So I am trying to install these two packages. I first tried doing the following

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -yy apache2 libapache2-mod-fastcgi php-fpm

this returned:

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package libapache2-mod-fastcgi E: Unable to locate package php-fpm

So I then tried:

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -yy apache2 sudo apt-get install -yy libapache2-mod-fastcgi php-fpm

The apache2 will install but for the last line it still gives the same error. I tried looking online if I was perhaps missing a repo, but I couldn't find anything that made me believe so. Next to that I also changed my source.list to have multiverse behind any of them. But this still did not work.. What might be the issue?

my source.list:

deb bionic main multiverse deb bionic-security main multiverse deb bionic-updates main multiverse

After being redirected by one of you to a problem which explained I had to add the universe repo, I did the following:

sudo add-apt-repository universe sudo apt-get update

this gives the error:

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package libapache2-mod-fastcgi is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package 'libapache2-mod-fastcgi' has no installation candidate

I also tried

sudo add-apt-repository "deb $(lsb_release -sc) main universe restricted multiverse"

Thanks everyone!

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1 Answer

I came across this problem by doing a Digital Ocean tutorial whilst trying to set-up an NGINX Apache2 reverse proxy. Turns out the tutorial was wrong and that libapache2-mod-fastcgi package isn't available in the Ubuntu repositories, so the command they gave was incorrect. It has to be obtained externally (at least now, maybe it was accurate before).

Funnily enough I found the correct way to do it in a different Digital Ocean tutorial, which can be viewed below along with the source.

These commands worked for me:

wget sudo dpkg -i libapache2-mod-fastcgi_2.4.7~0910052141-1.2_amd64.deb
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